Peter Aldhous

Peter Aldhous

Science journalist, BuzzFeed News

Biography

Peter Aldhous is a reporter on the science and health desk at BuzzFeed News, based in San Francisco. His interests span biology, medicine, social sciences and the environment — from genetics and stem cells, through ecology and conservation, to psychology and psychiatry. He is especially interested in investigative and data-driven journalism.

He got his break in journalism in 1989 as a reporter for Nature in London, fresh from a PhD in animal behavior. He worked as European correspondent for Science, as news editor for New Scientist and chief news & features editor with Nature, before moving to California in 2005 to become New Scientist’s San Francisco bureau chief.